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2024 Pipeline SMS Annual Report

On July 22, the Pipeline Safety Management Systems (PSMS) Industry Team published the 2024 PSMS Annual Report, detailing progress in implementation maturity, assessment programs, stakeholder engagement and recommended practice (RP)…

July 22, 2025
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Notable Practices

The Notable Practices tool compiles notable practices identified during API’s PSMS Third-Party Assessment Program and catalogues them by PSMS Program Element. This tool is intended solely for informational purposes. API…

July 21, 2025
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2023 Pipeline SMS Annual Report

On July 1, The Pipeline Safety Management Systems (Pipeline SMS) Industry Team published the 2023 Pipeline SMS Annual Report. For the third year in a row, the report found that…

July 1, 2024
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2022 Pipeline SMS Annual Report

WASHINGTON, October 3, 2023 – The Pipeline Safety Management Systems (PSMS) Industry Team published the 2022 Annual Report. For the second year in a row, the report found that nearly…

October 3, 2023
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2021 Pipeline SMS Annual Report

Annual Report Demonstrates Voluntary Industry Progress WASHINGTON, July 7, 2022 – The American Petroleum Institute (API) and seven other pipeline and contractor trade organizations today released the Pipeline Safety Management…

July 12, 2023
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Contractor Guidance

As a free complement to API Recommended Practice (RP) 1173, Pipeline Safety Management Systems (SMS), The American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Pipeline SMS Industry Team published Pipeline SMS: A…

November 16, 2022
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contractor framework | contractor guidance
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ESG Alignment

Pipeline Safety Management Systems (PSMS) helps meet Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals. PSMS is at the heart of pipeline good governance providing the risk management structure necessary to promote…

August 12, 2022
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environment | ESG | governance | social | sustainability
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Guide to Learning

The API AOPL Guide to Learning provides recommendations to facilitate lesson learning. The Guide breaks down the basic functions of acquiring, transferring and changing into a learning process with six…

April 27, 2021
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learning | sharing
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Guide to Sharing

The API AOPL Guide To Sharing provides a clear and simple process for determining whether and how to share safety lessons with peers across the pipeline industry. The Guide is…

April 27, 2021
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API & Southwest Gas Pipeline SMS Webinar

May 12, 2021, 6:00 pm
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